1844 Chicago mayoral elections
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The 1844 Chicago mayoral elections is the first of only two instances in which a Chicago mayoral election was declared invalid (the other being the disputed April 1876 mayoral election).
As a result of the Common Council declaring the result of the city's March 1844 mayoral election null and void, a second election was held in April.
While the result of the March election had been a victory for incumbent mayor Augustus Garrett, Garrett was defeated in the April election by Alson Sherman, who had not been a candidate in March.